Artful Dodger

I think all of the comments you posted were good, except for Mr. Barret's.

"I'm not sure what the international community loved best; his waffling
on Afghanistan,"

He has called for a troop buildup in Afghanistan.  I don't think Obama waffled there (to waffle means to be evasive).  He has been clear in his objective of escalating the offensive against the Taliban.  I suppose it is not as peaceful as Mr. Nobel would like!

"pulling defense missiles out of Eastern Europe,"

He has pulled back from the strategic missile defense system.  Meaning that the missile shield in Eastern Europe is on hold.  This is a peaceful thing, because if he hadn't done that the Russians had already made it clear that they would start building up their nuclear arsenal again and that they would pull out of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.  The Bush administration was playing an extremely dangerous game in pursuing that missile shield system.  It threatened a new nuclear arms race.  Obama had no choice there.  The way the American economy is now, the US couldn't handle an arms race of the kind we saw during the Cold War.  I think it was this and that UN speech about nuclear disarmament that gave Obama the prize.

"turning
his back on freedom fighters in Honduras,"

The man who wrote this is rather ignorant about Latin America.  A Fascist dictator takes power by coup d'etat and he calls the man and his henchmen freedom fighters?  I would say what really did it for me is the Honduras comment.  Mr.
Barrett nees to study a little about fascism in Latin America and
understand why every country in Latin America condemned the fascist
Micheletti taking over power by force.

"coddling Castro"

When?  If promoting a thaw in a freeze of relations going back 50 years is coddling, then what was the point of warming up to China so we could buy cheap good from them?  It sounds hypocritical to me that it is OK to buy cheap goods from communist China, while at the same time we hate Cuba.  Either we hate communists or not.  Hypocritical convenience seems alive everywhere.

"siding with
Palestinians against Israel"

When?

"or almost getting tough on Iran"

Obama has been anything but tough on Iran!  For that matter Bush himself was not that tough on Iran.

Well, Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize is like a runner at the Olympic games getting the gold medal before he ran the race.  They would give the guy the medal because everyone is expecting him to succeed.